advance directive 預設（醫療）指示

advance directive
繁: 預設（醫療）指示
簡: 预设（医疗）指示

長者醫療問題備受關注，食衞局（醫衞局前身）在2019年就是否就預設醫療指示立法進行公眾諮詢。時隔近四年，立法會衞生事務委員會最新文件顯示，醫衞局今年內擬就預設醫療指示交修訂並公布立法框架，當中包括就預設醫療指示編纂為成文法則，及末期疾病的院舍病友可以更易選擇在居處離世。 

預設醫療指示終擬今年交法案　病人組織稱僅為推廣晚期照顧第一步（2023年5月10日）。香港01，取自https://www.hk01.com/article/896489?utm_source=01articlecopy&utm_medium=referral

The proposed amendments, long overdue after a public consultation in 2019, aim to give advance directives, medical documents used by dying patients to specify which treatments they want or refuse, statutory power.

Hong Kong’s terminally ill will have more say in medical treatments and deaths under proposed amendment to law (2023, May 10). SCMP. Retrieved from https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3220096/hong-kongs-terminally-ill-will-have-more-say-medical-treatments-and-deaths-under-proposed-amendment